On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:58 PM, John Machin <sjmac...@lexicon.net> wrote: > On Jul 5, 12:27 pm, Martineau <ggrp2.20.martin...@dfgh.net> wrote: >> On Jul 4, 8:34 am, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the second >> > release candidate of Python 2.7. >> >> > Python 2.7 will be the last major version in the 2.x series. However, it >> > will >> > also have an extended period of bugfix maintenance. >> >> > 2.7 includes many features that were first released in Python 3.1. The >> > faster io >> > module, the new nested with statement syntax, improved float repr, set >> > literals, >> > dictionary views, and the memoryview object have been backported from 3.1. >> > Other >> > features include an ordered dictionary implementation, unittests >> > improvements, a >> > new sysconfig module, auto-numbering of fields in the str/unicode format >> > method, >> > and support for ttk Tile in Tkinter. For a more extensive list of changes >> > in >> > 2.7, seehttp://doc.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.htmlorMisc/NEWS in the >> > Python >> > distribution. >> >> > To download Python 2.7 visit: >> >> > http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/ >> >> > 2.7 documentation can be found at: >> >> > http://docs.python.org/2.7/ >> >> > This is a production release and should be suitable for all libraries and >> > applications. Please report any bugs you find, so they can be fixed in >> > the next >> > maintenance releases. The bug tracker is at: >> >> > http://bugs.python.org/ >> >> > Enjoy! >> >> > -- >> > Benjamin Peterson >> > Release Manager >> > benjamin at python.org >> > (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 2.7's contributors) >> >> Benjamin (or anyone else), do you know where I can get the Compiled >> Windows Help file -- python27.chm -- for this release? In the past >> I've been able to download it from the Python web site, but have been >> unable to locate it anywhere for this new release. I can't build it >> myself because I don't have the Microsoft HTML help file compiler. >> >> Thanks in advance. > > If you have a Windows box, download the .msi installer for Python 2.7 > and install it. The chm file will be in C:\Python27\Doc (if you choose > the default installation directory). Otherwise ask a friendly local > Windows user for a copy. > --
Or you can just use 7-zip or cabextract on the MSi. Saves you from having to uninstall it later, and it works on non-Windows machines. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list